That guy is one of the best local guitarists I've heard, pero parang na-bored yata sa rock at nag-classical na lang. Siguro mas challenging sa kanya yung ganun ngayon. One day hopefully he'll grow back his balls & go back to the six string.
I don't think his classical playing is less "ballsy", as you might like to call it. Electricity is not a requisite for a moving musical performance.
Rock has always been more aggressive & ballsy than Classical music, that's for sure.
Not true. Way before the screaming girls in the US when the Beatles came, or the riots at punk shows became commonplace, Stravinsky already caused a riot at the premiere of "Le Sacre du Printemps" (The Rite of Spring). I've read somewhere that he had to get out of the concert hall through one of the windows because the audience was trying to get him. After getting a recording of this work, I can say that it was quite disturbing, considering the time it was first written and performed. When I looked at the score - you couldn't imagine how a big [strawberry] that was.
If you mean being able to rouse intense emotions when you say "ballsy", one could always argue that the electric guitar is very capable of that but that doesn't mean that a classical instrument, say the bassoon, can't create a noise that can have an emotional effect (albeit a different one) of a similar magnitude.
